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chump

/tʃʌmp/

verb

Meaning

  • To bite or chew loudly or heavily.

    "The dog chomped on the treat and swallowed it in one gulp."

  • (Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).

noun

Meaning

  • An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.

    "That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground."

  • A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.

    "It shouldn't be hard to put one over on that chump."

  • The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.

Synonyms

dummy,
dupe,
gull,
patsy,
pigeon,
sap,
sucker,
blockhead,
dolt,
dope,
dummy,
dunce,
idiot